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Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets Cover Image Book Book

Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets

Dittrich, Luke (author.).

Summary: "An award-winning investigative journalist explores the scientific, ethical and, above all, human dimensions of one of the most important stories in the history of medicine. In the summer of 1953, a renowned Yale neurosurgeon performed a novel operation on an epileptic patient. The operation helped control intractable seizures, but it also did something else: it left the patient amnesic for the rest of his life. Dittrich excavates the lives of Dr. Scoville and his most famous patient, and spins their tales together in thrilling, kaleidoscopic fashion, uncovering troves of well-guarded secrets, and revealing how the bright future of modern neuroscience has dark roots in the forgotten history of psychosurgery, raising ethical questions that echo into the present day."--Provided by the publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780812992731
  • Physical Description: regular print
    xv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, 2016.

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Includes index.

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Subject: H. M -- 1926-2008
Scoville, William Beecher -- 1906-1984
Amnesiacs -- Biography
Neurosurgeons -- United States -- Biography
Epilepsy -- Surgery -- United States -- History
Memory disorders

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